I saw that posted on BoingBoing and I clicked all the way through to the original post to see if the poster had any idea what kinds of godless activities the new neighbors objected to. As it turned out, no.

If I got that, I’d just laugh. And maybe start blasting my godless music a little louder.

Thanks for the link. I agree about the sad state of pop music these days. Having said that, a friend gave me a ticket to an Arctic Monkey show in Chattanooga. Holy crap – I’m pushing 50…and now I’m into the Arctic Monkeys. Did not see that coming!

I’m not condoning the above letter, they lost me at Godless activities, but for humours sake I’d like to hear from Surf Reporters with regards to the other point of view. What if you had a young child and your neighbours were constantly engaging in loud passionate lovemaking /fucking that could clearly be heard through a shared wall? Would you say anything? What kind of letter would you write?

Fucking talk to them. I was on our HOA board and people were constantly calling me about people leaving their trash cans out too long, playing loud music too late, not edging their sidewalk enough.

Get to know you next door fucking neighbors and have a goddam conversation with them. You are a fucking adult, handle your issues by starting a conversation not by calling someone godless for fuck’s sake. That note means shit. What they call godless could me sitting in a lawn chair sucking down a Busch beer.

Across the road neighbors had a large dog (okay, several dogs but the large one was the offender) who barked all night long. A few days after speaking to them about it and the dog had been barking for hours, I heard a loud gun blast.

Yeah, they shot it. I’ll be damned if I ever discuss barking with them again.

I had a friend who lived in a duplex, and the other tenants would occasionally hold loudly musical prayer meetings on the front lawn. He finally set a speaker in the window and blasted lines from The Exorcist, including his particular favorite, “Your mother sucks cocks in hell!”

“By God, we sure can! Jesus, why didn’t you say something a long time ago? I mean … Christ, if you’d only said something to our faces instead of leaving notes under the door, this could have been settled man to man.

“And while you’re at it, get that God-damned Bathtub Mary off the lawn.”